The first official function of Young Enterprise was the Young Enterprise Training Day. On this day all the teams in our region, the Eastern Bay of Plenty, converge on Whakatane for a day of getting to know each other and getting to grips with "The Business Plan!" There were about eight or nine teams from four schools. Most of the other schools have Young Enterprise as a part of the timetable but for ourselves and Edgecumbe it is an extra curricular experience. We have the most distance to travel so piled into one of our school vans for the journey to Whakatane. We looked very flash too dressed in our school's No1 uniform which we all like to wear when representing our school at events. (see the photo which shows us in ernest discussion with one of the 'dragons'.) Arriving late, after having got the venue wrong, we soon settled in for an informative day. Many thanks to the ladies at the Whakatane District Council who were so helpful and found the correct venue for us.
We had a fun and informative day on all kinds of topics. Two of the most interesting were about guerrilla marketing and core competency. Two of the most useful parts were our team brainstorming to decide on a product and the session with the 'Dragons'. The 'Dragons' were all business advisers who rotated around asking us questions about our proposed business, answering all our questions and making suggestions for funding etc which may be available. We had arrived at this day thinking that we had just about decided on our product but afterwards, when we returned to school, we actually ended up choosing a product, the idea for which came from this day. Thanks to everyone involved in this day it was most helpful.
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